Get the list of open ports using command prompt

Step 1

1. Start->Run->cmd ( Go to command prompt)

2. Use command as follows to get a list of listening ports in your system.

C:>netstat -an |find /i “listening”

Step 2

So you have the list of listening ports. Now if you wish to have a hard copy of the list or you wish to Store it as a list. Of course you can copy from the windows displayed but that doesn’t seem neat. There is a small command which can help you store this list as a .txt file.

C:>netstat -an |find /i “listening” > c:’openports.txt

Step 3

You can also get a list of established connections by replacing the ‘listening’ by ‘established’ in the earlier command.

C:>netstat -an |find /i “established”